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Since the introduction of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), software developers increasingly have to make privacy-related decisions during system design and…

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In software development, privacy preservation has become essential with the rise of privacy concerns and regulations such as GDPR and CCPA. While several tools, guidelines, methods, methodologies, and frameworks have been proposed to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Tharaka Wijesundara , Matthew Warren , Nalin Asanka Gamagedara Arachchilage

Organizations often collect private data and release aggregate statistics for the public's benefit. If no steps toward preserving privacy are taken, adversaries may use released statistics to deduce unauthorized information about the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Priyanka Nanayakkara , Johes Bater , Xi He , Jessica Hullman , Jennie Rogers

Process performance indicators (PPIs) are metrics to quantify the degree with which organizational goals defined based on business processes are fulfilled. They exploit the event logs recorded by information systems during the execution of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Martin Kabierski , Stephan Fahrenkrog-Petersen , Matthias Weidlich

Private information retrieval (PIR) is a privacy setting that allows a user to download a required message from a set of messages stored in a system of databases without revealing the index of the required message to the databases. PIR was…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Sajani Vithana , Zhusheng Wang , Sennur Ulukus

Privacy is important for all individuals in everyday life. With emerging technologies, smartphones with AR, various social networking applications and artificial intelligence driven modes of surveillance, they tend to intrude privacy. This…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Priyam Rajkhowa , Pradipta Biswas

Website owners make conscious and unconscious decisions that affect their users, potentially exposing them to privacy and security risks in the process. In this paper we introduce PrivacyScore, an automated website scanning portal that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-12 Max Maass , Pascal Wichmann , Henning Pridöhl , Dominik Herrmann

Given a query result of a big database, why-provenance can be used to calculate the necessary part of this database, consisting of so-called witnesses. If this database consists of personal data, privacy protection has to prevent the…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Tanja Auge , Nic Scharlau , Andreas Heuer

Privacy and security are central to the design of information systems endowed with sound data protection and cyber resilience capabilities. Still, developers often struggle to incorporate these properties into software projects as they…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Nicolás E. Díaz Ferreyra , Sirine Khelifi , Nalin Arachchilage , Riccardo Scandariato

In today's mobile application marketplace, the ability of consumers to make informed choices regarding their privacy is extremely limited. Consumers largely rely on privacy policies and app permission mechanisms, but these do an inadequate…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-01-05 Steven C. Isley

Android users are increasingly concerned with the privacy of their data and security of their devices. To improve the security awareness of users, recent automatic techniques produce security-centric descriptions by performing program…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Tingmin Wu , Lihong Tang , Rongjunchen Zhang , Sheng Wen , Cecile Paris , Surya Nepal , Marthie Grobler , Yang Xiang

User profiling, the practice of collecting user information for personalized recommendations, has become widespread, driving progress in technology. However, this growth poses a threat to user privacy, as devices often collect sensitive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Rishika Kohli , Shaifu Gupta , Manoj Singh Gaur

The rapid rise of IoT and Big Data has facilitated copious data driven applications to enhance our quality of life. However, the omnipresent and all-encompassing nature of the data collection can generate privacy concerns. Hence, there is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Mert Al , Semih Yagli , Sun-Yuan Kung

Privacy requirements are increasingly growing in importance as new privacy regulations are enacted. To adequately manage privacy requirements, organizations not only need to comply with privacy regulations, but also consider user privacy…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Ze Shi Li , Manish Sihag , Nowshin Nawar Arony , Joao Bezerra Junior , Thanh Phan , Neil Ernst , Daniela Damian

Differential Privacy (DP) has emerged as a pivotal approach for safeguarding individual privacy in data analysis, yet its practical adoption is often hindered by challenges in the implementation and communication of DP. This paper presents…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Onyinye Dibia , Prianka Bhattacharjee , Brad Stenger , Steven Baldasty , Mako Bates , Ivoline C. Ngong , Yuanyuan Feng , Joseph P. Near

Software logs, generated during the runtime of software systems, are essential for various development and analysis activities, such as anomaly detection and failure diagnosis. However, the presence of sensitive information in these logs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Roozbeh Aghili , Heng Li , Foutse Khomh

Many users make quick decisions that affect their data privacy without due consideration of their values. One such decision is whether to download a smartphone app to their device. Previous work has suggested a relationship between values,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Sarah E. Carter , Mathieu d'Aquin , Dayana Spagnuelo , Ilaria Tiddi , Kathryn Cormican , Heike Felzmann

Recommender systems are essential for personalizing digital experiences on e-commerce sites, streaming services, and social media platforms. While these systems are necessary for modern digital interactions, they face fairness, bias,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Falguni Roy , Xiaofeng Ding , K. -K. R. Choo , Pan Zhou

User profiling is crucial in providing personalised services, as it relies on analysing user behaviour and preferences to deliver targeted services. This approach enhances user experience and promotes heightened engagement. Nevertheless,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-07 Imdad Ullah , Najm Hassan , Tariq Ahamed Ahangar , Zawar Hussain Shah , Mehregan Mahdavi , Andrew Levula

AI powered health chatbot applications are increasingly utilized for personalized healthcare services, yet they pose significant challenges related to user data security and privacy. This study evaluates the effectiveness of automated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Muhammad Hassan , Abdullah Ghani , Muhammad Fareed Zaffar , Masooda Bashir